Tom Tunguz

JULY 19, 2022

We swapped the transaction database from PostGres to a blockchain like Ethereum or Sui , and the file storage from AWS S3 to a decentralized storage provider, perhaps Filecoin or ArWeave. Makes me wonder: If the database APIs were the same across web2 & web3, would developers or users notice?

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Blockchain AWS Engineering Startup 307

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As Chief Product Officer at DigitalOcean and a developer-turned-entrepreneur, Gabe Monroy shares how founders can avoid the trap of over-engineering products that customers won’t pay for and how to de-risk product development through a simple analogy of candy, vitamins, and painkillers. That’s when OpDemand was born.

Sales Hiring 130

Sales Hiring Development AWS Engineering 130

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Have a plan Decide how much DevOps you want in your development Talk to who you’re going to switch to first Make sure you have the right team in place Brace for transition period costs Plan for higher Cost of Revenue. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Have a plan. Well… maybe! But not for us.

AWS 115

AWS DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 115

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Moats : how to develop competitive advantage? The PC increased GDP by 0.006%, according to NBER That alone should turn heads. Market : how to compete with incumbents?

Generative AI 211

Generative AI AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 211

SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2022

Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitialOcean doesn’t want to take AWS, Azure and Google on in the enterprise and doesn’t really try. So DigitalOcean is the quiet Cloud platform that keeps on growing. Wow what a story!!

Azure 233

Azure AWS SMB Cloud 233

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Anyone who has ever tried to sell software to developers probably learned pretty quickly that traditional B2B marketing tactics just plain don’t work. Developers are a tough crowd, their time is extremely valuable, and they’re allergic to anything that even remotely feels, tastes, or smells like marketing. Hope it’s helpful!

Development 105

Development DevOps as a Service Software AWS 105

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. The same is true in software.

Software Review 224

Software Review Outsourcing Services Software Outsourced Development 224

Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

Various roles in your organization, like data scientists, data engineers, application developers, and business analysts, can access data with their choice of analytic tools and frameworks. The conference features talks from practitioners and open-source leaders from the ecosystem from Netflix, Microsoft, Expedia, AWS, and Preset.

Data Analysis 242

Data Analysis Cloud Data Scaling 242

Audacix

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Building a culture of security in you software development teams is not an easy task, but its crucial if you want to minimise the chances of unforeseen cybersecurity disasters and unfortunate media appearances. How to build application security into your software development lifecycle. Would that be helpful?

Software Development 52

Software Development GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Development Software 52

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich: Today I’m the Senior Director for Foundations Engineering at Intercom.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

IT World

APRIL 9, 2019

Cisco and Google have expanded their joint cloud-development activities to help customers more easily build secure multicloud and hybrid applications everywhere from on-premises data centers to public clouds. Check out what hybrid cloud computing is and learn what you need to know about multi-cloud.

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multi-cloud Kubernetes Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Development 72

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2019

5+ learnings for founders: Developers control a lot of spend today. We all know this from AWS and Twilio on down, but Fastly is a visceral reminder. Yes, Fastly is a developer-focused platform with $100k+ price points. Even developer-focused products don’t sell themselves, folks. 34% of engineering team in SF.

Outsourced Development 226

Outsourced Development AWS Retention Enterprise 226

CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS 130

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

Intercom is a product-led company, focused on maximizing product innovation and development velocity. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The foundation of our operational health is availability.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Management Systems Review 118

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

Technical Review 274

Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there. But that’s just the beginning.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Putting together a job description for a Growth Engineer? The below tidbits are taken from 30+ job descriptions for Growth Engineers, all from tech companies such as Asana, Airbnb, AdRoll, Cybercoders, Mircosoft, UXPin, and Zenefits, to name a few. What do all these job descriptions tell us about growth engineering? Innovative.

Engineering 74

Engineering Growth Hacking Scale Social Media 74

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Consider the scenario: There are a handful of skilled engineers in Silicon Valley. It includes leadership development courses, and responsibilities of managing and hiring one or two reps to get experience. . But are those factors really going to carry the company long-term, or could another competitor outstrip them?

Sales Hiring 208

Sales Hiring Scale Compensation Sales 208

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. Adam came up with the wildest idea he could think of for an app and used Anthropc, a large language model company, to help develop the idea. All these developers will have agents to help them write faster and faster.

Generative AI 268

Generative AI AWS AI Artificial Intelligence 268

CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Development AWS Cloud 130

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Benefits of using Expense Categories in SaaS The main expense categories for any SaaS company are: Cost of Revenue Research & Development Sales & Marketing General & Admin These four categories are the standard for describing costs and expenses of any SaaS company from Salesforce to Zoom to your startup.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

User Pilot

MAY 10, 2023

Amazon grants its AWS customers access to its recommendation engine to help them personalize their user experience. Using this tool, Amazon AWS users can now offer up to 50% better recommendations to their website visitors, email marketing lists, and more, thus improving the customer experience and their conversion/click-through rates.

Artificial Intelligence 62

Artificial Intelligence AI Search AI Machine Learning 62

IT World

APRIL 28, 2020

Also on InfoWorld: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which free tier is best? ]. Now that they are moving to the public cloud, both developers and infrastructure engineers are finding some very compelling reasons to “go open” in the cloud. Indeed, it’s half or more of the cloud computing bills I’ve seen recently.

Cloud 64

Cloud Azure Software AWS 64

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams Of course, not all customers want to pay for all the features. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) SaaS Cloud 130

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

Engineering 178

Engineering Technical Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team 178

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle. Not really.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team AWS Scale 52

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2015

Marketing, engineering and HR follow. Fourth, software serving engineering teams tie collaboration applications for the fastest growing types of SaaS products. PagerDuty, AWS and New Relic are the three listed in Okta’s reports. Then finance tools for operations management and expenses. log in exclusively on mobile.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Data AWS 100

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. These platforms are vital in simplifying our payment operations by providing a secure infrastructure to process credit card transactions, handle multiple currencies, and manage recurring payments without complex development.

Merchant Services 73

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 73

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services. The top ten technical strategies to avoid. Multi-cloud architectures.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

SaaS ensures that consumers are always up to date with the latest version, while also ensuring that developers have a continuing source of revenue with which to maintain their product. Platform as a service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete environment for development and deployment over the internet. What is PaaS?

Cloud 59

Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. About Frontegg.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Innovation New CTO 52

ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

PaaS stands for ‘platform as a service,’ providing developers with a complete environment for developing and deploying apps over the internet. Google Compute Engine (GCE), Digital Ocean, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are all good examples of IaaS. PaaS vs. on-premise: What’s the difference?

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 75

Neil Patel

APRIL 8, 2021

On the other hand, a big multinational business may have a host of developers and IT professionals capable of handling more complex functions. Instead, they pay for access to infrastructure through the cloud through companies like AWS, IBM, and Rackspace. However, with PaaS, you also outsource runtime, middleware, and O/S.

Outsourcing Services 119

Outsourcing Services Cloud Outsourced Development Azure 119

Audacix

APRIL 2, 2022

The application security landscape is constantly changing, and with the increased frequency of software application breaches in recent years, it's crucial that companies are able to protect their applications and software development life cycle from cyberattacks.

Software 52

Software DevOps as a Service Software Development Cloud 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “[Our research] opened up new markets for this product without them having to go through the other kinds of experimentation they were originally planning” After doing a bunch of analysis and digging into it, they realized the videos were too slow in certain countries because of where their data centers or AWS environments were located.

Data 151

Data Airlines AWS Underperforming Technical Team 151

Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

So the big questions are, which one will work for your software development: Without creating extra delays in your application delivery schedule; and Without creating extra costs related to managing a new tool? What are the benefits of using vulnerability assessment tools during software development?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Cloud Software Engineering 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Sales Development. Career Development. Digital Sales and Development Manager. Manager, Business Development. Empowering Sales Development. Manager Strategic Partner Development for the Americas. Director of Public Relations and Business Development. Sales Development. Leadership. Sales Growth.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121